The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

THE meanest, shallowest, most
contemplate organization in all this
country is that which poses under the
pompous name of the Grand Army of
the Republic. 1t is an aggregation of
leeches, hypocrites and dead-beats. p
Atlanta (Gd) Gazette. What is the
matter with those Georgia people these
days?
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Albany, N. Y, has appealed
to the third-party prohibitionists to
withdraw its candidates in favor of the
republican nominees, who are threat
ened with defeat by the saloon inter-
ests and the anti-Sunday law men.
This the inpracticables have declined
to do.
AN inquisitive correspondent, who
intruded upon Mr.. Blaine and his party
in the Continental railway train the
other day, telegraphs back to America
the startling information that Miss
Blaine wore very shabby gloves. Here
is another proof that Blaine is still
plotting for the nomination for presi-
dent.-Philadelphid Press.
THE interstate commerce commission
has rendered two more decisions re-
lating to alleged determinations. The
gist of one is that tributary road is
not responsible for rates it does not
make, and the other that the Northern
Pacific railroad can give no more special
tickets to land explorers unless it gives
the same favor to the general public.
{" IT was" says the Boston Traveller,
Sin the last DAYS of the campaign of
1884 that German, for the democratic
national committee, raised, according to
hearsay, $4,000 to effect change in
New York against Blaine" And it
was thus that German got grip on
Cleveland which the latter has not
been able to relax.-Mou and ErpresS
THE number of sheep in the United
States rose from nineteen millions in
1910 to fifty-one millions in 1884 and
declined to forty-five millions in 1887
In 1880 our wooden product reached
S164 200, 900 and the imports S31 ,000,-
600. Our products increased nearly
sevenfold from 1915 to 1880, while our
imports only increased about sixty-two
per cent
In his speech at Macon, Ga, in
glorification of the lost cause" Gen
eral Henry Jackson seemed to have
made especial efforts to fire the south
ern heart, and the three great out
bursts of applause were: First, when
he pronounced slavery the gentlest and
most humane relationship that had eX-
listed between labor and capital; second,
when the revolutionary will of the
sovereignties of the North that main
tanned the Union uncOnstitutionally
was denounced; and, greatest of all
when Davis was commended and Lin
coin condemned.
IT is said that in New York city last
year from the houses on Fifth avenue be-
tween Forty-second and Forty-seventh
streets only twenty-eight persons regis
tered, and this year the number is still
smaller. When we talk about "the
dangerous classes" it ought to be under
stood that we include the men of wealth
and education who are too indolent to
attend to the duties of citizenship.
New York has no monopoly of such
men. They are to be found by the
hundreds in Boston and in other centers
of wealth and refinement, and their
Indifference and dilettanteism are a con-
slant menace to the best interests of
the COMMUNICATIONS Journal.
IT seems to be evident that the
migratory instinct is not nearly so ac-
tive among New England people now
as it was a generation or two ago, and
although the New England and Eastern
States formerly furnished the new
populations for the West, yet it is true
now that the fountain-head of the
streams of emigration is the Middle
Western States. Thus Kansas is com.
monty supposed to have been largely
peopled by New Englanders. This i.
a mistake. The census of 1880 shows
that Kansas contained only % 1896 per
sons of New England birth, while In,
diana up to that time had furnished
II ,069 emigrants for the same state
Ohio 90 1893, Kentucky 32,97S anG
Missouri 60,22S. The same is some.
what true of all the new states and
territories. They are being peoplet
mainly by emigrants from the Middle
Western ates.-BOstOn CultiUdtOr.
THE Rutland Herald has recently
published letter from member Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union defending the action of tn,
Woodstock convention in pledging the
support of this organization to tn,
third-party prohibitionists. After falsely
charging that the republican party is
in sympathy and collision with the sa
loon, and much more to the same eff
feet, the writer says: "The saloor
has gone into politics and the temper
ance people must go there to fight i
successfully. We might just as wei
have fought secession without going
into the South as to fight the saloor
without going into politics." Tn,
Argus (Which has no sympathy what
ever with prohibition, but has lots o
sympathy for the third party becaus,
r it threatens to injure the republican
partly regards the above as unanswer
able. 1t is little better than a wretcheC
piece of sophistry, and the third-party
, advocates are simply frittering away
l their influence in Quixotic move
ment. 1t is stated by Rev. Mr.. Ball o
Buffalo, Hon. Albert Griffin of Kansas
! and others that the late John II